Seeing that Elizabeth was still asking, Eric shook his head and said: "Don't ask about this matter, and you can't tell clearly now, but Marvel's dish is very big, and the Firefly family will definitely not be able to finish it. When the time comes Everyone has a share."
After listening to Eric's nonsense, Elizabeth, who no longer intends to continue the topic, became curious again when she heard him say this. She couldn't even eat fireflies, so how big is Marvel's potential
Just as he was about to continue asking, a waiter hurried over to Eric and whispered something in his ear.
Eric nodded to the waiter, and said to Elizabeth: "Come with me to meet the guests."
Elizabeth stood up and asked, "Who is it?"
Eric raised his arm towards Elizabeth, waited for the girl to hold him, and said, "Warner's Terry Semel, so, be more intimate."
Elizabeth immediately guessed Eric's intentions. If the two of them looked close, Terry Semel, who came to Disney's animation department, would definitely re-evaluate Fox's competitiveness, and Firefly would get a higher offer. .
"Hmph, you actually used me," Elizabeth complained a little, but she leaned on Eric obediently, and the two greeted him out together.
Terry Semel has gray hair, a pair of rimless glasses, and has a certain refined temperament of a scholar. Although he is just in his early fifties, he has been working at Warner for nearly 20 years and is one of several important successors trained by Steve Ross.
However, after the death of Steve Ross, Terry Semel, who became the CEO of Time Warner through a fierce internal competition, has not had a good time recently. In a big way, after the merger between Firefly and ABC, Warner was immediately kicked down by Firefly and sat firmly on the throne of media hegemony for many years. On the small side, in this hot summer season when the total box office once again broke the Hollywood box office record, Time Warner's film and television business has bucked the trend and has reached the lowest level of Time Warner's film and television business in many years. These have caused Terry Semel to receive tremendous pressure from all aspects almost every day recently.
Upon hearing the news that Firefly was about to sell Disney's animation division, Terry Semel knew right away that this was a great opportunity to get himself out of his current predicament. Firefly's starting price of $100 million is nothing to Time Warner, which has reached tens of billions of dollars. But if it can win the animation production department, Time Warner can immediately open up the animated film market that has never been successfully developed in the past. This will also be a very big good news for him personally.
After Terry Semel got out of the car, he saw Eric walking towards him, and just about to go up to meet him, he noticed Elizabeth beside Eric. In recent years, Murdoch's outstanding daughter's achievements in Hollywood are obvious to all. Terry Semel also vaguely heard that Elizabeth and Eric were relatively close. But as Eric's status got higher and he was afraid of his influence, there were fewer and fewer reports about his private life in the media. Terry Semel really didn't know what the relationship between the two was.
Seeing Elizabeth holding Eric's arm affectionately, Terry Semel narrowed his eyes. If Eric and Elizabeth are lovers, it will become a big change in Warner's acquisition of Disney's animation department. After all, Fox will definitely not let go of this opportunity easily.
Eric noticed the change in Terry Semel's expression, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he reached out to him: "Mr. Semel, welcome to Pointe Manor."
Terry Semel quickly put away his thoughts to deal with Eric, and greeted Elizabeth warmly, and the three of them walked towards the villa.
"Eric, can we talk alone?" Socialize with the guests in the hall. Terry Semel whispered to Eric.
Eric knew that Terry Semel just wanted to win the animation department before the public auction, and maybe he wanted to bargain for the copyright of animations such as "The Lion King". Anyway, the animation department is the private property of Firefly. In the final analysis, the form of sale depends on Eric's meaning.
However, the animation department was originally just a bait released by Eric to attract Hollywood's attention. Before he successfully won Marvel, he didn't intend to have any entanglements with other big companies in this regard. He just wanted to find an excuse to reject Terry Se Mel, I heard someone report that Paramount CEO Shirley Lansing also rushed to Pointe Manor.
"Sorry, Mr. Semel. I need to pick up someone, maybe we can make another appointment," Eric apologized to Terry Semel, and walked out of the villa with Elizabeth again.
There are also no permanent enemies in business. Although due to the conflicts that arose during the competition for Disney, Redstone did not appear in person, but he still sent Shirley Lansing, the CEO of Paramount, to come to this party that is very sensitive to timing for many people.
After Shirley Lansing, many important figures in Hollywood also came to the scene one after another. Although everyone had their own thoughts, they failed to contact Eric alone.
Although no reporters were invited to the party. However, the scene full of competition in the Angle Manor was immediately spread the next day. Afterwards, Eric simply asked people to post the list of assets of the animation department to be auctioned and related information on the Yahoo website, which immediately aroused heated discussions again.
The focus of media attention is mainly on the seemingly very low auction reserve price of 100 million US dollars. You know, just one "Lion King" will bring Firefly a net profit of no less than 100 million US dollars in the next few years.
"In order to resist the invasion of capital by selling the Disney animation department, Eric Williams undoubtedly made a very crazy, willful and stupid decision, although the box office value of the Disney animation department accounts for the revenue ratio of the entire Firefly Group system. Very low, but don’t forget that Disney’s amusement parks, peripheral stores, and franchise licensing businesses all need the locomotive effect of Disney animation. The box office success of “The Lion King” further proves the unlimited economic potential of Disney animation owners, which is hard for us to imagine. Where does the Disney brand go without the Disney animation division?"
"Although we have no way of knowing what intention Eric Williams has to abandon the Disney animation department, the auction price of 100 million US dollars shows the shrewdness of the Firefly Group. This low pricing strategy will undoubtedly attract more people. There are many investors who are interested in acquiring Disney's animation department, which will lead to more intense competition in the auction process. At present, Time Warner, Viacom and News Corporation, the three major local Hollywood giants, have expressed their strong interest in Disney's animation department. The French Vivendi Group and the Canadian Seagram Group, which are interested in entering Hollywood, have also begun to have close contact with Firefly executives. According to estimates by analysts at First Boston Bank, the final auction price of Disney’s animation department is likely to exceed 200 million US dollars, which will be More than double the price quoted by Firefly."
"Walt Disney's nephew, Roy Disney, publicly criticized Eric Williams for killing the spirit of Disney, claiming that without Disney's animation department, Walt Disney's ideas would be gone. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Walt Disney's daughter, Diana Disney Miller, also expressed her extreme disappointment with Firefly's decision."
"Eric Williams has proven his talents in film and television business countless times, so I think everyone should have good reason to pay attention to another thing that happened at the same time as Firefly's sale of the animation department, which is Why did Firefly go to great lengths to seize Marvel Entertainment from Wall Street investor Ron Perelman. Although most media tended to believe that this was Firefly Group’s revenge on Ron Perelman’s fanning of Firefly’s creditors, but with Ariel Williams' outstanding business performance in the past few years. I absolutely do not believe that this young Hollywood tycoon will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in revenge on his enemies. What's more, the whole thing has obviously been carefully planned, even Even the legendary investor Warren Buffett is involved, and this evidence is enough to prove that the whole thing is not revenge. Perhaps, in the eyes of Eric Williams, Marvel Entertainment is more important than the Disney animation department that created "The Lion King" It is important. If this is the case, if there is any bold investor who dares to snatch Marvel at this time, he will undoubtedly get unexpected gains."
Ron Perelman sat in his luxury car, silently flipping through a thick stack of today's newspapers. In a piece of news about Firefly's upcoming sale of the animation department, I finally saw someone mentioning Marvel, and this chapter on the "Manhattan Morning Post" is almost exactly consistent with his recent guesses about Marvel's series of encounters.
However, Ron Perelman did not have any excitement about finding a confidant at all, because two days ago, the New York District Court quickly approved the compulsory bankruptcy protection proposed by Marvel creditors with astonishing efficiency. With the cooperation of Marvel CEO Avi Allard, Marvel creditors represented by Katzenberg quickly took control of Marvel's board of directors.
The luxury car slowly stopped outside the Marvel headquarters on 5th Street in Midtown Manhattan, after Ron Perelman got off the car. He walked into Marvel's office building with his assistant.
It happened to be working hours, and several Marvel employees were waiting for the elevator in the corner of the lobby. Seeing Ron Perelman walk in, the few people who were whispering stopped talking immediately. Tiptoed around Ron Perelman and headed for the security stairs.
Ron Perelman has long known that most people in Marvel are very disgusted with him. If it was before, he would not care about these little people at all, but today, Ron Perelman looks like a plague god Dodging his Marvel staff as well. A strong anger suddenly appeared in my heart.
Clenching his fists, Ron Perelman said to the assistant beside him in a cold tone, "Neil, go and write down the names of those people, and then notify the personnel department to tell them all to leave."
Assistant Neil glanced at the almost hysterical boss, wanting to remind him of something, Ron Perelman had already roared: "Even you want to resist me, I'm still the master of Marvel!"
Neil didn't dare to hesitate at all, and hurriedly walked towards the safety stairs.
Arriving at the floor where the headquarters of Marvel Entertainment is located, Ron Perelman found that all the lights in the corridor were still on, and there were people coming and going in and out of the conference room not far away from time to time, feeling uncomfortable. En Perelman walked into the meeting room at a faster pace, and found that Jeffrey Katzenberg, Avi Arad and others were all there, and it was obvious that those who were looking at various reports and financial data, Either a lawyer or an accountant.
Katzenberg, with dark circles under his eyes, heard the prompt from the person beside him, raised his head from the pile of papers, saw Ron Perelman coming, raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and suddenly said: "It's already nine o'clock It's clock."
Having said that, Katzenberg stood up from his seat, stretched his body, ordered his assistant to prepare breakfast for himself, and then walked straight to the door. Ron Perelman had expected that once Firefly controlled Marvel, he would definitely He would immediately attack Marvel's financial situation, but he did not expect that Katzenberg had already led people to review Marvel's financial documents overnight without any notice, which made him depressed just now. The anger broke out again. Seeing Katzenberg approaching him, Ron Perelman gritted his teeth and said: "You didn't get my permission. This is illegal. I will protest to the Federal Court. I Most definitely."
Katzenberg moved his stiff neck and came to Ron Perelman. He didn't mind Ron Perelman's threats. He patted him on the shoulder a few times and said, "Go protest, Rowan!" Um. But before we do that, I think we have to talk about it, like the $470 million thing."
Katzenberg left the conference room after leaving these few words, but Ron Perelman felt a chill in his heart. The number that Katzenberg casually said was not related to his occupation of Marvel's debt financing. The amount is exactly the same. This probably means that, just one night, the fireflies have mastered enough things. He just didn't know that Firefly had roughly grasped the data before launching an offensive against Marvel. Without enough evidence, the New York District Court would not have approved the bankruptcy protection application of Marvel's creditors so quickly. What Katzenberg did at this time was just to find the exact evidence from Marvel's internal documents.
Unable to attack Katzenberg, Ron Perelman unwillingly pointed the finger at Marvel CEO Avi Arad: "Avi, why did you betray me, don't forget, I support you to get the Marvel The position of Wei CEO?"
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